Phan Sinh Quoc, known professionally Chagrin, is a character in the 2008 James Bond Novel Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks.
Novel Biography[]
Devil May Care[]
While other countries were occupying his native Vietnam, Chagrin was part of a group of people who underwent surgery to remove their emotions, but Chagrin's surgery went slightly bad and disabled part of his face, making him resemble a stroke victim, and left an unhealing flap of skin on his forehead which he hid with a kepi hat. After being released back onto his country, Chagrin and a group of like-minded associates would go to villages and rip out the tongues of christian preachers in villages, and would drive chopsticks through the eardrums of the children who listened to it.
For this, he was branded as a war criminal and went into private employ for Dr. Julius Gorner. Under Gorner, Chagrin was ordered on several occasions to rig his tennis matches for him by raising and lowering the net to his advantage. He was later put in charge of overseeing the warehouse housing Gorner's Ekranoplan which he planned to attack the Soviet Union. In the warehouse, he found James Bond and Scarlett Papava, whom he took to Gorner's desert base. Shortly after, Papava escaped, and Chagrin was prepared to use his chopstick technique against Bond, but was ordered not to. In case Bond's suicide mission failed, Chagrin was sent to Moscow to watch for him. When he did find Bond, he ambushed he and Papava in a train where he was defeated and held out of the train compartment's window before hitting a tunnel and being decapitated.